Emerging in Chile

Hey, that’s so great!! we’re also looking foward to create a Group for emergent Christians in Venezuela, if anybody is interested, just mail me, please.

Groups like this have been “emerging” for a long time in Latin America. The expression have been different due to issues of communication, resources, cultural expression and religious traditions.
It concerns me that they would be recognize only if they reflect and are assimilated by the expression of emerging church that comes from USA and Europe.

I am very encouraged by Fundacion Kairos -http://www.kairos.org.ar/ and La Red Del Camino – http://www.lareddelcamino.net/es/ – whom relatively new to the web/emerging conversation (as of recently found by people in USA and Europe) have been living incarnationally and missionally for years and struggling with what it means to live in a Jesus way for a long time.

Generacion Tribal – have been at is as well for some time – http://www.tribalgeneration.org/global/esp/conteudo.php?url=quemsomos

Hi. I am chiliean and resoning with emerging thinking… i speak english a little, scuse me i write in spanish now.

Me llamo Marcelo y vivo en Chile… me alegra mucho saber que hay hermanos emergentes organizandose en Chile, aunque yo pienso que las ideas emergentes han estado entre los latinoamericanos desde hace tiempo. Tuve la oportunidad de escuchar a Brian McLaren cuando vino a Chile y de leer varios libros emergentes (Kimball, Pagitt, Jones)... me encantaria poder relacionarme con otros creyentes chilenos y latinoamericanos resonando con las ideas emergentes. (puedo leer ingles pero escribo muy poco, escusenme amigos de Emerging Village)

Hey Eliacin,

Thanks for mentioning these other “emerging” groups. I’d heard of Tribal Generation before (which seems focused primarily in Brazil, is that right?), and of course La Red Del Camino (which has been mentioned here on the Emergent site before).

This is by no means meant to exclude any of these other groups. Hector Gonzalez posted a comment on the Emergent Village group on Facebook that alerted me to the existence of this new group for emerging types in Chile. I simply wanted to pass along that little bit of “news.”

Peace,
Steve K.

Marcelo-
Como puedo comunicarme contigo?

Hola Eliacin, pense que mi mail (grimato@hotmail.com) quedaría registrado. Me doy cuenta que habemos varios latino-emergentes dando vueltas por ahí. Hecho de menos algun foro o pagina (tipo allelon o Emerging Village) donde podamos intercambiar ideas en español. ¿conoces alguna?

Interesting. Yes, the “emerging conversation” as it is known in Europe, US and English-speaking Africa, has been around in Latin America for years. Many historians think that the 1974 Lausanne Conference paved the way for a neo-evangelical reworking on doing theology and church. It’s only that these movements, as Eliacin pointed out, aren’t rooted in the Web as European and American cohorts and networks are.

It’s interesting to see many latin american people engaged in this “conversation.”

Marcelo,

Some friends and I at Ateneo Teológico social network @ Ning, have formed an Emerging group there to talk about our experiences in our communities of faith. It can be reached at http://protestantes.ning.com/group/iglesiaemergente.

Yes. the emergent thoughts has been in southamerica.. since a long time ago..Theologians like René Padilla, Samuel Escobar, and many others..
But we had that thougts and convictions… but not that churches… For a long time I was thinking that way but at chruch I was a Pastor that was following the rules of tradition.. even though that would be against my emergent convictions.. or as I used to say an still.. mis convicciones de la Misión integral…
Anyway, the emergent movement is making this thoughts and convictions practical… not just thinking it but doing it…
Thank you for posting us here Steve….bye and blessings to everybody

this is really cool! I lead a community that is often labeled ‘emergent’ just outside Toronto. I am Canadian, married to a Chilena. We are going to be spending sever months in Algarobbo & Vina Del Mar for my sabbatical this year (Chilean summer). It would be great to connect…please feel free to email me!